SmaCE'22: 4th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Circular Economy Los Angeles, CA, United States, May 30-June 1, 2022 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/smace2022/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smace22 |
Submission deadline | March 22, 2022 |
COVID-19 Pandemic Planning. We are optimistic the event will be held physically in LA but we are monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic evolution and a hybrid attendance format may be considered, if needed; in case of a hybrid format, every paper accepted for DCOSS 2022 (presented in person or virtually) will be published in the IEEE proceedings.
Scope
Circular Economy is a paradigm for sustainable growth that envisions the transformation of how modern societies design, produce and consume goods and services towards a regenerative economic cycle. Future and emerging technologies, such as 5G, the blockchain, and crowdsourced sensing systems, along with innovative models and paradigms, such as the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and community networks, will play an important role in the transition to Circular Economy by enabling and facilitating, among others, digitization (efficient asset management, open data, etc.) and collaboration (co-innovation, shared value creation, etc.).
Smart Circular Economy is an international inter-disciplinary workshop focusing on the role of ICT as an enabler for Circular Economy. This workshop will bring together scientists, researchers as well as relevant stakeholders from the industry and local communities to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research lying in the intersection of ICT and Circular Economy.
- Accepted and presented papers will appear in IEEE Xplore and all major publication indexes (DBLP, Scopus, etc.).
Topics
IEEE SmaCE is an inter-disciplinary event accepting papers in the disciplines of Computer Science, Economics and Business. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures for collecting and curating data generated by distributed, heterogeneous smart assets.
- Technology enablers for Circular Economy - Internet of Things, 5G, Software Defined Networks, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and other.
- Smart Infrastructure - Smart Grid, Utility Networks (water, gas, waste, etc.), Transport Networks and other.
- Crowdsensing, Internet of Things and Participatory Sensing, Crowdsourced Systems and Architectures
- The Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies for Smart Circular Economy -asset tracking, smart contracts, micro-transactions, etc.
- In-depth case studies illustrating Circular Economy performance and efficiency in terms of people, the planet and profit.
- Sharing economy and resale markets.
- Peer-to-peer and ad-hoc markets.
- Applications of Smart Circular Economy technologies in verticals such as healthcare, transportation, energy, citizen safety, and other.
- Interdependency between Digital and Physical Networks; e.g. communication and utility networks.
- Data-driven business models, Open Innovation, Co-creation and shared value creation
- RFID, NFC and other technologies for asset management
- Low-Power Networks - LoRa, SigFox, NB-IoT, IPv6-enabled IoT, Industrial IoT
- Smart services and service provisioning
- Requirements engineering for Circular Economy
- Security, Privacy and Trust for Smart Circular Economy
Proceedings
Accepted and presented papers will be published by IEEE and will be listed by all major academic indexes.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 22nd, 2022
Acceptance Notification: April 22nd, 2022
Camera Ready Submission Deadline : April 27th, 2022
Early Registration Deadline: TBA
Workshop Date: TBA
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Marios Angelopoulos, Bournemouth University, UK
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Giorgos Demetriou, Ecole des Ponts Business School, France
Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH, Greece
Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece
David Langley, University of Groningen & TNO, the Netherlands
Publicity Chair
Anastasia Vayona, École des Ponts Business School, France
Technical Program Committee
Valerio Frascola, Intel Labs Europe
Theodoros Kostoulas, University of the Aegean
Stéphane Jean-Jacques Kuendig, University of Geneva
Maria Kyropoulou, University of Essex
Mustafa Mustafa, University of Manchester
Nikolaos Petroulakis, Foundation for Research and Development - FORTH
Panikkos Poutziouris, University of Central Lancashire
Theofanis Raptis, National Research Council of Italy
José Rolim, University of Geneva
Konstantinos Tsagkarakis, Democritus University of Thrace
How to Submit
Submissions will be made using the EasyChair server at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smace22
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality papers reporting original research or other relevant to Circular Economy activities (such as industrial use-cases) that lie within the scope of the Workshop.
All papers will be reviewed and evaluated by members of SmaCE Programme Committee and will be evaluated based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the Workshop. A small number of papers will appear by invitation. Accepted papers must be presented at the Workshop in order to be published in the SmaCE’21 proceedings, which will be published by IEEE and will be listed by all major academic indexes such as Scopus and DBLP.
Note that the Workshop follows a single-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be presented in the submitted manuscript.
No-show papers submitted by authors who did not present the paper in-person will not be included in the workshop proceedings. No refund of the paid fees can be claimed by the no-show authors. Presentations by proxies are not allowed, unless explicitly approved by the organisers.
The manuscripts must be prepared in English (UK or US spelling), following the IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (available here) with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages including text, figures, and references. Authors may add at most two (2) pages, but only for an appendix, i.e. these two pages contain supplementary material only. The additional two pages will incur overlength charges at 100USD/page.